![]() Now they’ve doubled down on this with coronavirus patients, and it’s paying off. ![]() These little-known health care workers operate the all-important ventilatorsĮver since, to varying degrees, doctors in the United States have been placing ventilated ARDS patients on their stomachs. Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal via AP Seven years ago, French doctors published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that patients with ARDS who were on ventilators had a lower chance of dying if they were placed on their stomachs in the hospital.Īmy Setchell, at right, program director of the respiratory therapy program at Madison Area Technical College, and Chris Becker, director of clinical education of the respiratory therapy program at MATC, load ventilators, that the school is lending due to coronavirus to SSM Health, along with other area hospitals, into a truck outside the college's Health Education Building in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 24, 2020. The same syndrome also kills patients who have influenza, pneumonia and other diseases. Patients with coronavirus often die of ARDS, or acute respiratory distress syndrome. Kathryn Hibbert, director of the medical ICU at Massachusetts General Hospital. “Once you see it work, you want to do it more, and you see it work almost immediately,” added Dr. “It’s such a simple thing to do, and we’ve seen remarkable improvement. “We’re saving lives with this, one hundred percent,” said Narasimhan, the regional director for critical care at Northwell Health, which owns 23 hospitals in New York. States desperate for medical supplies turn to each other for help ![]() NY State Governor Andrew Cuomo is seen during a press conference at the COVID-19 field hospital site at the Javits Center in New York, NY, USA on March 30, 2020. ![]()
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